Forrest Gump author Winston Groom (The Aviators) will sign his new book about Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker and Jimmy Doolittle at 4 p.m. Monday at the Student Community Center, Saint Leo University, 33701 State Road 52, St. Leo.

Jay Nordlinger (Peace, They Say: A History of the Nobel Peace Prize, the Most Famous and Controversial Prize in the World), senior editor at National Review, speaks on his book at noon Tuesday at Cathedral Church of St. Peter, 140 Fourth St. N, St. Petersburg. Free; lunch available.

The University of South Florida Humanities Institute presents physicist Lawrence Krauss (A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing) speaking at 6 p.m. Tuesday in the Oval Theater, Marshall Student Center, on the USF campus, 4202 E Fowler Ave., Tampa.

Tampa Bay Times columnist Jeff Klinkenberg (Alligators in B-Flat) will discuss and sign his latest book at 6 p.m. Thursday at the St. Petersburg Public Library North Branch, 861 70th Ave. N.

The University of South Florida English Department presents award-winning poet Robert Herschbach (Loose Weather) reading from his work at 6 p.m. Thursday at USF GraphicStudio, 3702 Spectrum Blvd., No. 100, Tampa.